1. Moyers, "Up the Blandbox."

2. Carnegie Commission on Educational Television, Program for Action , p. 99.

3. Whitehead's preference for Kristol as Corporation president is contained in Whitehead to Flanigan, memorandum, July 5, 1972 ( Nixon Papers , p. 81). Whitehead argued that "Kristol's personality and capabilities complement and reinforce Henry Loomis. . . . Kristol could be more readily elected as Chairman than Curtis." The reference to Henry Loomis as the presumed president of the Corporation occurred a month before Macy had decided to resign.

4. The quotation is attributed to CPB director Jack Valenti in Stone, Nixon , p. 191.

5. Transcript of Loomis's closed-circuit meeting with the PBS stations, Sept. 20, 1972, NPBA.

6. "A Novice for Public TV," Time , Oct. 16, 1972.

7. Harry Ashmore, Fear in the Air (New York: Norton, 1973), p. 113.

8. Stone, Nixon , p. 73.

9. "Profile," Broadcasting , Oct. 30, 1972.

10. Loomis to Whitehead, memorandum, Nov. 7, 1972 ( Nixon Papers , p. 92).

11. The quote is generally credited to Jim Lehrer, then PBS's coor-

dinator of public-affairs programming. It appeared in the New York Times , Nov. 11, 1972.

12. "Several PTV's Nix NASA's Big Show," Variety , Nov. 22, 1972.

13. Resolution of the Board of Directors, The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, adopted at its regular meeting, Owings Mills, Md., Jan. 10, 1973. Quoted in John Carmody, "Public TV Takeover," Washington Post , Jan. 12, 1973.

14. "Public TV's Freedom Is Called Stunted," New York Times , Jan. 31, 1973.

15. "The Nixon Network," Newsweek , Jan. 1, 1973.

16. Cecil Smith, Los Angeles Times , Jan. 15, 1973, quoted in Stone, Nixon , p. 228.

17. Kay Gardella, "Public Broadcast Unit's Influence Seen Ended," New York Daily News , Dec. 22, 1972.

18. "Two Series Make End Runs to Get on CPB Schedule," Variety , Mar. 14, 1973.

19. "MacNeil Sees PTV in Danger of Being Nixon Mouthpieces," Broadcasting , Jan. 29, 1973.

20. Stone, Nixon , p. 195.

21. Goldberg to Whitehead, memorandum, Apr. 20, 1973 ( Nixon Papers , p. 102).

22. Rose to Higby, Oct. 15, 1971, ( Nixon Papers , p.41).

23. Hearings of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Subcommittee on Communications, Mar. 28-30, 1973, No. 93-10, p. 8. Buchanan's charges against public television on the Dick Cavett Show were read into the record at the opening of Senator Pastore's hearings on public television.

24. "Public TV Affairs," New York Times , Jan. 19, 1973.

25. "Floppo Season for PTV Web," Variety , Nov. 29, 1972.

26. "PBS Board of Directors Statement Following Meeting of January 5, 1973," issued as an undated press release by PBS, NPBA.

27. Transcript of Gunn's remarks on PBS closed-circuit broadcast of Jan. 9, 1973, NPBA.

28. John J. O'Connor, "Moving in for the Kill?" New York Times , Jan. 21, 1973.

29. "Report CPB Flooded with Mail from Citizenry Deploring Govt. Control of Public TV and Squelching of News," Variety , Mar. 7, 1973.

30. According to Robert MacNeil, Loomis's reaction to the outpouring of mail was a disclaimer that "the number and emotional content of letters is not necessarily a good measure of audience size or interest." Said MacNeil, "I think this translates as 'To hell with what the public

wants.'" Quoted in Tom Shales, "Public TV: Debate Continues," Washington Post , Jan. 27, 1973.

31. Minutes of the Feb. 6, 1973, meeting of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, NPBA.

32. The original members of the twenty-five-member lay Board of Governors of PBS were Edmund F. Ball (WLPB), Caroline Charles (KQED), Dollie Cole (WTVS), Phyllis Dennery (WYES), Salvatore Fauci (WSKG), Dr. William Friday (WUNC), Alfred C. Galloway (WDNC), James G. Harlow (WWVU), C. Bart Hawley (WCET), Ethan Allen Hitchcock (WNET), Sidney James (WETA), John Lowell (WGBH), Dr. Donald R. McNeil (WMEB), Barbara Roper (WFME), Dr. John Ryan (WTUI), Leonard E. Rosenberg (Maryland Center for PTV), H. Russell Smith (KCET), Irby Turner, Jr. (Mississippi ETV), Dr. Richard Vanhoose (Kentucky ETV), Robert G. Waldo (KCTS), Frank Wozencraft (KUHT), and Ralph B. Rogers (KERA), chairman.

33. "PBS: Only the Name's the Same," Variety , Apr. 4, 1973.

34. "Report of the CPB Ad Hoc Committee Commissioned to Negotiate with the Rogers Group," Apr. 5, 1973, NPBA. Also quoted in "'Mutual Trust' as Victim of Fallout in Proposal for PTV Compromise; Acrimony Master of Ceremony," Variety , Apr. 25, 1973.

35. Avery and Pepper, Politics of Interconnection , p. 41.

36. Dr. Gloria Anderson, Neal B. Freeman, and Jack Wrather made up the new committee.

37. Thomas Curtis to James Killian, Apr. 16, 1973 (Stone, Nixon , p. 278).

38. "Public TV Licensees and CPB Head for Confrontation on Program Control," New York Times , Mar. 27, 1973.

39. John Carmody, "Public TV Fight: An Analysis," Washington Post , June 2, 1973.

40. "The CPB-PBS Agreement: 'In Order to Effect a Vigorous Partnership,'" Public Telecommunications Review (Aug. 1973). The article contains the complete text of the compromise agreement.

41. Henry Goldberg to Clay T. Whitehead, memorandum, Apr. 20, 1973 ( Nixon Papers , p. 308).

42. Frank Carlucci to Henry Loomis, Jan. 1973 (quoted in Stone, Nixon , p. 258).

43. Thomas Curtis to Frank Carlucci, Feb. 1, 1973 (see Stone, Nixon , p. 260).

44. "Whitehead Bucks Pastore, Magnuson on CPB Funding," Broadcasting , Apr. 2, 1973.

45. U.S. Congress, Record of Senate Hearings , S. 1090, Mar. 28-30, 1973.

46. Whitehead to the president, draft memorandum, June 6, 1973 ( Nixon Papers , p. 108).

47. Whitehead to the president, draft memorandum, Oct. 1973 ( Nixon Papers , p. 112).

48. Patrick Buchanan to Hank Paulson, memorandum, Oct. 14, 1973 ( Nixon Papers , p. 114).

49. Stone, Nixon , p. 290. He refers to an interview with James Karayn, Philadelphia, Dec. 10, 1980.

50. Los Angeles Times , June 20, 1973 (quoted in Stone, Nixon , p. 291).

51. MacNeil, Right Place , p. 288.

52. Ibid.

53. "Watergate Is Boon to Public Television," Wall Street Journal , June 15, 1973.

54. Stone, Nixon , p. 293.

55. "An Essay on Watergate," Bill Moyers' Journal , Public Broadcasting Service, Oct. 31, 1973.

56. Robert de Roos, "All Quiet along the Potomac," Focus (KQED) 19, no. 8 (Sept. 1973).

57. The resignation was not the end of my association with public television. I continued to serve on boards affiliated with the public medium, produced a nightly series of celebrity interviews ( Day at Night ), and taught undergraduate and graduate courses in public television for fourteen years.

58. Nixon Papers , p. 118 (quoting an Associated Press story of Apr. 4, 1974).

59. Stone, Nixon , p. 301 He refers to an interview with Clay T. Whitehead, New York City, Feb. 25, 1981.

60. Whitehead to the president, memorandum, Apr. 2, 1974 ( Nixon Papers , p. 116).

61. Ibid.

62. Whitehead to Gen. Alexander Haig, memorandum, n.d. ( Nixon Papers , p. 119).

63. Stone, Nixon , p. 312 (Whitehead interview).

64. Whitehead testimony before the Senate Communications Subcommittee, Aug. 6, 1974 ( Nixon Papers , p. 123).

65. Stone, Nixon , p. 330 (Whitehead interview).